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Rhoda G. Lewin

Rhoda G. Lewin earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in journalism and a Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. After a career in newspaper reporting, publication editing and public relations, she taught journalism at the University of Wisconsin/Superior and the University of Minnesota, wrote a monthly column for the American Jewish World for ten years, edited Identity, a literary magazine, for fourteen years, and was a founding member of the Minnesota Independent Scholars Forum and the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest. She is the author of two books, Witnesses to the Holocaust: An Oral History (widely used in high schools and colleges) and Images of America: Jewish Community of North Minneapolis.